| 99% Of youth football players have a dominant | | | | place him on the right side, as he would be |
| hand and a dominant side. | | | | moving left in most cases. The exception in this |
| Players naturally move more comfortably | | | | scheme would be the right guard who goes in |
| towards their dominant hand side. As an | | | | both directions quite a bit. In the Single Wing |
| experiment, run a drill where players get the ball | | | | playbook there are lots of football plays where |
| and then make a cut either to the right or left at | | | | the wingback either goes in motion to his left or |
| a point 5 yards downfield. You will find over 90% | | | | even carries the ball to the left. Some Single Wing |
| of the time the youth football player will cut to his | | | | Teams even have football plays in their bag of |
| dominant hand side. | | | | tricks where the wingback throws the ball. It |
| We use this fact to our advantage on kickoffs. | | | | would be a huge advantage in this Offense if the |
| Since most football players are right handed and | | | | wingback were left handed. In 2006 we had a left |
| will in most cases cut to their right, we kick to | | | | handed wingback; he scored 12 touchdowns and |
| the other teams right sideline. We find that even | | | | averaged nearly 10 yards per carry. |
| though there is little room to run in between the | | | | On the flip side we had a very good running back |
| hash and the sidelines, most of the kick returners | | | | type in 2006 that was left handed as well, he |
| will still cut to their right, their dominant hand side | | | | started at blocking back for us and did an |
| and refuse to run left. Using this strategy we | | | | excellent job in our SIngle Wing Offense. If you |
| rarely have to defend more than 1/4 of the field | | | | have the 2006 game tape you will see on our |
| on kickoffs. | | | | spinner blocking back wedge or trap plays where |
| Players that are left handed are going to feel | | | | he carries the ball, he invariably breaks the plays |
| more comfortable running to their left and right | | | | to his left. This player should have been our |
| handed players are going to feel more | | | | backup tailback, but in our playbook so many of |
| comfortable running to their right. In the double | | | | our tailback designed plays go to the right and our |
| wing offense where the offense calls for pulling | | | | run pass option play goes to the right as well. We |
| both the guard and tackle to opposite sides | | | | gave this player reps at tailback, but he never felt |
| equally in a balanced formation, it would make | | | | comfortable there and could not throw the ball |
| sense to have your left handed pulling guard and | | | | moving right at all so we didn't end up playing him |
| tackle on the right side (pulling left) and the | | | | at tailback. If your Single Wing team ever has a |
| righties on the left side ( pulling right). | | | | very dominant player that is a lefty and you want |
| In the Single Wing Offense, our linemen are in | | | | to play him at tailback, consider making your base |
| most cases stepping to the inside to protect the | | | | formation unbalanced left and run your base |
| inside gaps. If you have a left handed linemen in | | | | football plays to the left. |
| this offense, it would be to your advantage to | | | | |